U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations

As Pennsylvania hospitals work to remain ready for any number of public health emergencies — from likely disasters such as a busy flu season to unlikely events such as an Ebola outbreak — they are doing so with dramatically reduced federal funding for hospital preparedness. Financial aid to the state's hospitals from the Bureau of Public Health Preparedness has been cut more than 50 percent over the past five years, state budget records show. According to the state Department of Health, grants to hospitals from the federal Hospital Preparedness Program dropped from $7.96 million in 2010-2011 to $3.61 million in the current budget year. The funding stream, created after...

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